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overall idea of the selection and then to be concise in their summaries.

Each day’s activities should take just five to fifteen minutes. Meanwhile, students should still read full length works of all types so they can naturally begin to apply the comprehension skills they are learning in their daily practice.

If you complete this process each week with a different reading selection, struggling readers will gain the skills needed to become confident readers, and all readers will be more prepared for reading across the curriculum, for standardized testing, and for life beyond the schoolhouse.

Dawn and her husband Rod have been homeschooling their children for twelve years. As a curriculum developer for DGP Publishing, Inc., Dawn is co-author of the Daily Reading Practice series. One of Cathy Duffy’s “ 102 Top Picks,” Daily Reading Practice provides students in grades 1-10 with a short reading selection for each week and different comprehension tasks for each day. Dawn is also the author of Daily Grammar Practice and other innovative language arts materials . Soli Deo Gloria .

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